Mental Illness Happy Hour
"Remarkable" - Psychology Today
"A vital, compassionate gem that fills a desperate and under-addressed need in our society." - Esquire
"A perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods." - NY Times
"Gilmartin makes a conscious effort to explore stories that aren’t black and white" - Slate Magazine
"Praised by listeners all over the world" - Atlantic Monthly
Named To Top Health Podcast List by: NY Times, Esquire, Slate, Oprah Magazine, Women's Health, Onion A.V. Club, Apple Podcast Staff
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 108 minutes
- Episodes
- 662
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Jessa Reed - Trailer Park Survivor
Few guests have revealed as much of themselves as Jessa, a comic and podcaster (Mormon and the Meth-Head) We touch on being molested, fear of intimacy, addiction, mending relationships, sobriety, an…
01:57:26 |
Thu 07 Jun 2018
Clutter, Hoarding & "Stuff" - Tracy McCubbin
Decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin shares about her experiences being raised by a hoarder and how she helps clients part with their stuff. She and Paul get into the topics of materialism, cheap-goods…
01:49:00 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Unspeakable Trauma to Meth Psychosis - Todd G
Paul's friend shares about the co-dependent relationship with his longtime lover that ended in tragedy & Todd's PTSD, porn & meth binges tailspinning into a showdown on his roof vs a SWAT team, befor…
02:11:22 |
Fri 25 May 2018
Best Of: Tiffany Haddish
One of our best episodes - recorded in 2015 before she was famous (Girl's Trip, Saturday Night Live) - Tiffany opens up about her horrific family life, being shuttled around the foster care system an…
02:12:04 |
Fri 18 May 2018
Singer-Songwriter Chris Smither
The blues-based singer-songwriter who has written for Bonnie Raitt and other artists started out in the epicenter of the NY/Boston folk scene among contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Eric Von Schmidt …
01:14:17 |
Fri 11 May 2018
Melissa Broder aka @SoSadToday returns
The hilarious author and uber-popular Tweeter @SoSadToday delves into subjects covered in her latest book, The Pisces (and reads from it). She and Paul talk about romantic obsession, sexual compulsio…
02:03:02 |
Fri 04 May 2018
Andy Richter
The comedic actor, improviser and longtime Conan O'Brien sidekick opens up about his battles with depression, worry, anxiety and sadness and how he has learned to manage them with talk therapy. He al…
02:04:33 |
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Nora McInerny - Live in Minneapolis
The host of the Terrible Thanks For Asking podcast and author of It's Okay To Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) sits down with Paul before a live audience to talk about how she processed (and still is) the …
02:29:44 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Cy Amundson Live in Minneapolis
The actor/comedian (Comedy Central Presents: Cy Amundson) opens up in front of a live audience about his OCD, anxiety and how the loss of his teenage sister affected him and his family.
For more on C…
01:15:11 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Judging Our Feelings - TED Talk speaker Dr. Susan David
The Harvard Medical School research psychologist's recent TED Talk "The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage" went viral a month or so ago and here she sits down with Paul to talk about the human habi…
01:47:50 |
Fri 06 Apr 2018
Polyamory - Daisy & Cory
Daisy (with Cory for support) shares about her emotionally absent parents, Taiwanese culture, her anxiety, need to control, fear of making mistakes, struggling to find a sense of self and the imprint…
02:31:35 |
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Workaholism & Anxiety - Jordan Harbinger
The hilarious, self-depreciating podcaster (Jordan Harbinger Show) and ex-lawyer opens up about a recent professional crisis that left him with extraordinary anxiety, insomnia and panic attacks. He …
02:15:22 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
My Brain Hates Me - Jessie Dean Altman
The writer (Lady Parts, The Onion) and dog walker shares about the lifelong battle she has had with her brain and emotions including: Intrusive thoughts, OCD, treatment-resistant depression, procrast…
01:58:56 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
The Devil & James Bond - Michael Cannan
Paul's support group friend, recovering heroin addict and author shares about his upbringing on the Isle of Mann (UK) and the shame and anxiety he felt about secrets in his family and within himself.…
01:48:47 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
CC Sheffield - Fame, Money & Abuse
Originally recorded while speaking under the pseudonym "Daisy" to protect her from her abusive ex-fiancee, CC, a successful model, DJ and actress describes the abusive relationship she struggled to l…
01:33:18 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
Heartbreak - The Science & Coping - Dr. Guy Winch
Renowned author & TedTalk speaker Dr. Guy Winch talks about different kinds of heartbreak, especially the ones some people minimize (loss of pets or non-married breakups). He gets into the science o…
01:56:02 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Horror & Beauty - Witnesses to a Shooting
Paul is joined by two support group friends, Jonathan & Mukunda, to talk about their experience 3 weeks earlier when a shooting victim stumbled into their meeting and began bleeding out at their feet…
01:33:29 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Female Sex Addiction - Erica Garza
The Salon contributor and author of Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction shares about her sex addiction, which began at age 12 after discovering masturbation as a way of so…
01:51:23 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
The Dark Grip of OCD - Dr. Jenny Yip
She battled OCD as a child but when she gave birth to twins it gripped her again despite being a trained psychologist who specializes in...yes...OCD. A great episode about the power fear, dark though…
01:26:38 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Food Owns Me, Anger & Dad Issues - Jay Larson
The writer (HBO's Crashing) and stand-up (Me Being Me) opens up about his dad abandoning his family when he was 2 years-old and how that has effected his view of the world, himself and now his childr…
02:26:00 |
Fri 26 Jan 2018
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